Soon, pay just Rs.50k for heart surgery

Want your heart fixed for just Rs.50,000 by skilled surgeons
in a top hospital with a family member to care for you ? Your wish will soon
come true. For, India’s first low–cost hospital will be up and running in Mysore
early next year.

These state-of-the art hospitals will be built at a cost of
Rs.16 crore, about one-fifth the cost of constructing a 300-bed super-speciality
hospital.

The brainchild of renowned cardio surgeon Dr. Devi Shetty,
this unique hospital will be piloted in Mysore and then in Siliguri (West
Bengal) and Bhubaneswar (Orissa).

Narayana Hrudayalaya has tied up with Larsen & Toubro to
execute the Mysore project which uses prefabricated material transported from
Puducherry. The general wards will receive daylight to the desired levels. Only
the OT complex and pre/post operation and ICU areas will have a conventional
concrete structure. “Most hospitals have huge vertical structures with heavy
air-conditioning. The best sanitizer for a hospital is sunlight and fresh air.
Dr. Shetty said, heart surgeries will be performed for Rs.50,000 and other
surgeries like gall bladder and hernia will cost between Rs.10,000 and
Rs.15,000. While hospitals in Mysore, Bhubaneswar and Siliguri will come up on
land given at subsidised rates, other hospitals will come up on the public
private partnership model.